Proverbs 7:2

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Proverbs 7:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

2 Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,

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Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

Leviticus 18:5

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

John 12:49

I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

John 12:50

And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

John 14:21

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

John 15:14

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

1 John 2:3

By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

1 John 2:4

If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

1 John 5:2

By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

1 John 5:3

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

Psalms 17:8

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

Zechariah 2:8

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—